Last week, The Mac Weekly included an opinion article expressing distaste for the Idea Lab. The article focused on the chaotic and childish nature of the space, lack of organization and the need for a more “collegiate” focus in our library. I would like to recognize that Noah Elkins, the author of the article, is…
Walking from the first to the second floor of the library is like walking into another world. The reference texts and printing stations all vanish as you walk up the first flight of stairs, and what you’re met with doesn’t look like a library at all. For some, the fact that the college provides hot…
The DeWitt Wallace Library is reviewing several thousand books for potential removal from college’s collection in the coming months, reigniting conversations over the library’s future and its role in the college’s broader mission. The books targeted for withdrawal were published between 1993 and 1998, have not been checked out in the last fifteen years, are…
The plan to re-purpose the second floor of the DeWitt Wallace Library as an entrepreneurship space continues to generate mixed reactions on campus. Several proposals on Change.org reflect student concerns that the renovations, which are slated to occur this summer, will drastically alter the second floor. Students fear the loss of study spots and heavier…
Professor Marlon James’s book was unanimously selected by Man Booker Prize for Fiction chair Michael Wood and judges Ellah Allfrey, John Burnside, Sam Leith and Frances Osborne. James is the first Jamaican author to win the Man Booker Prize in its 47-year history.
It has been seven years since the last book of the world phenomenon, the Harry Potter series—Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows—was published; however, it seems as though J.K. Rowling, the author, cannot let the series go from her life. On February 7, J.K. Rowling was interviewed for Wonderland Magazine by Emma Watson, who played…
